Archival Tape Edition No. 23 § Carlos Kleiber / Wiener Philharmoniker § Beethoven: No. 7

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The highly acclaimed yet elusive Austrian conductor Carlos Kleiber (Karl Ludwig Kleiber) only recorded 9 studio recordings in his 5-decades career. A perfectionist in extremis, Carlos Kleiber disliked recordings. He's quoted saying that "every unproduced record is a good record" . Those he made have come to occupy a special place in the medium's history: His recordings of Beethoven's 5th and 7th symphonies featuring the Wiener Philharmoniker are hailed as among the most outstanding classical rec